December 1, 2023

The science fiction to German philosophy pipeline

Hi friends,

I wrote about some books I've been reading, and the books they led me to read as a result.

Some excerpts from The Unique and Its Property by Max Stirner: The science fiction to German philosophy pipeline strikes again

I recently finished The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal by Ken MacLeod, two science fiction novels that are full of direct references to all kinds of socialist, communist, and anarchist ideas. As in, not only are people living, for example, in some kind of anarchist society as in Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed or Iain Banks' Culture novels, but they directly discuss specific schools of thought and thinkers. One of the thinkers directly alluded to was Max Stirner and his ideas of egoist anarchism.

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Thanks for reading and see you on the internet!

AK